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Archive for February 19th, 2025

Want a workout? Try walking to the top of the world’s largest telescope (photo)

February 19th, 2025 by me

The world’s largest telescope continues to take shape on the Cerro Armazones mountain in Chile’s Atacama Desert.

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Blue Ghost moon lander lowers its orbit to fly closer to the lunar surface (video)

February 19th, 2025 by me

Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost lander lowered its orbit around the moon Tuesday (Feb. 18), sending back gorgeous footage from just over the lunar surface.

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7 planets are aligned in the night sky right now. But what’s that mean for science?

February 19th, 2025 by me

In February 2025, all seven of our planetary neighbors will be visible from Earth. So what does such a planetary alignment mean for science? Well, not much — unless you’re an interplanetary spacecraft.

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I want to believe — but yet another massive search for alien technosignatures just turned up nothing

February 19th, 2025 by me

Hunting for alien civilizations isn’t a matter of just waiting around for them to show up; it’s the business of combing through enormous volumes of data to look for peculiar signals.

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Boeing plans to lay off hundreds of employees working on NASA’s SLS moon rocket: reports

February 19th, 2025 by me

Boeing is preparing to lay off roughly 200 employees working on the Space Launch System rocket as it braces for the possibility that its contracts with NASA may not be renewed after they end in March.

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Japan’s Resilience moon lander aces lunar flyby ahead of historic touchdown try (photo)

February 19th, 2025 by me

Resilience, a lunar lander built by Japanese company ispace, zoomed within a mere 5,220 miles (8,400 kilometers) of the moon on Feb. 14.

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‘Captain America: Brave New World’ introduces adamantium into the MCU, but did it come from space in the comics?

February 19th, 2025 by me

No Weapon X yet, but Captain America: Brave New World marks the arrival of adamantium to Earth-616 in a departure from its comic book origins.

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Is Pluto a planet or not? Who cares! Our love for the King of the Kuiper Belt is stronger than ever 95 years later

February 19th, 2025 by me

On the 95th anniversary of its discovery, Pluto remains one of the most beloved and enigmatic worlds in our solar system, whether you call it a planet or not.

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